] was transported to Rome by Augustus, and set up
ENDE'IS ('Evanís), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum.
ENDE'IS ('Evanís), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Scpt.
Sapient.
Conviv.
p.
mentioned by Montfaucon.
163, c, de Sollert, animal. p. 984. d. ) (L. S. ] An eminent jurist of the time of Justinian is
ENANTIOʻPHANES. Cujacius, in his Pre- frequently cited in the Basilica, and in the Scholia
face to the 60th book of the Basilica, prefixed to on that work by the appellation of the Anonymous.
the 7th volume of Fabrot's edition of that work, This writer composed an Index or abridgment of
supposes Enantiophanes to be the assumed name the Novells of Justinian, and was the author of
of a Graeco-Roman jurist, who wrote nepl évautio- Paratitla (a comparison of parallel passages) in the
Qaywv, or concerning the explanation of apparent Digest. To this work the treatise on apparently
legal inconsistencies; and Suarez (Notit. Basil. discordant passages would form a natural sequel;
$ 35) says that Photius, in his Nomocanon, men- and Mortreuil (Histoire du Droit Byzantin, i. p.
tions having written such a work. Fabricius, in a 296) makes it probable that Enantiophanes and
note upon the work of Suarez (which is inserted the Anonymous were the same persons; for in
in the Bibliotheca Graeca), states that Balsamo, in Basil. vi. p. 251 Schol. , a passage is ascribed to
his Preface to the Nomocanon of Photius, refers to Enantiophanes, which, in Basil. vi. p. 260, Schol. ,
Enantiophanes. Assemanni, however, shews (Bill. is attributed to the Anonymous.
Jur. Orient. ii. 18, p. 389) that there is no reason Biener (Geschichte der Novellen Justinians, p.
for attributing a work nepi vartiopavwv to Pho- 56) threw out the conjecture, that the Anonymous
tius, that there is no passage in his Nomocanon was no other than Julianus, the author of the Latin
relating to such a work, and that the sentence Epitome of the Novells; and Zachariae (Anecdota,
in which Balsamo is supposed by Fabricius to refer p. 204–7) attempts to establish this conjecture.
to Enantiophanes has no such meaning. The Mortreuil seems disposed to identify the three.
Έναντιοφανών βιβλίον is cited in Basil. v. p. 726. In order to facilitate investigation, we subjoin a
Enantiophanes (Basil. vi. p. 250) cites his own list (formed from Reiz and Fabricius) of passages
book de Legatis et Mortis Causa Donationibus, and in the Basilica where the name of Enantiophanes
the Napaypaon, or annotation, of Enantiophanes is occurs.
cited in Basil. vii. p. 496. The period when the ju- Basil
. i. pp. 70, 99, 100, 109, 260, 408, 262,
rist lived who bears this name, has been a subject | 265, 266, ii. pp. 540, 500, 609, 610, 628, iii.
of much dispute. Reiz (ad Theophilum, pp. 1234, pp. 43, 170, 258, 318, 393, 394, 412, v. p. 726,
1236) thinks that Enantiophanes wrote before the vi. 250, 251, 260, vii. 496, 499, 565, 640, 641.
composition of the Basilica, and marks his name (Heimbach, de Basil. Orig. pp. 76-79. ) [J. T. G. )
with an asterisk as an ascertained contemporary of ENAREʻPHORUS ('Evapń popos), a son of
Justinian. In Basil. iii. p. 318 Enantiophanes Hippocoön, was a most passionate suitor of Helen,
calls Stephanus his master ; but this is by no when she was yet quite young. Tyndareus, there
means conclusive. Assemanni, misled by Papado fore, entrusted the maiden to the care of Theseus.
poli, thinks that the Stephanus here meant lived (Apollod. iii. 10. § 5; Plut. Thes. 31. ) Enare
under Alexius Comnenus, and was not the Stepha- phorus had a heroum at Sparta. (Paus. iii. 15.
nus who was one of the compilers of Justinian's $ 2. )
(L. S. )
Digest. The contemporary of Justinian, however, EVA'RETE. (AEOLUS, No. 1. ]
was undoubtedly the person intended; but Stepha- ENCE'LADUS ('Eykénados), a son of Tarta-
nus was one of those early Graeco-Roman jurists rus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants
who, like Domninus, Patricius, and Cyrillus, are who made war upon the gods. (Hygin. Fub. Praef.
thought by Zachariae (Anecdota, p. viii. ) to have p. 1 ; Virg. Aen, iv. 179 ; 0v. Ep. ex Pont. ii. 2.
been called by subsequent jurists masters or teachers 12, Amor. iii. 12. 27. ) He was killed, according
in a general sense. (Compare Busil. 11. tit. i. s. 67, to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and bu-
sch. ed. Heimbach, i. p. 616. ) Zachariae places ried under mount Aetna (Virg. Aen. iii. 578); and,
Enantiophanes among the jurists who lived before according to others, he was killed by the chariot of
the time of Basileius Macedo. (Ilist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Athena (Paus. viii. 47. § 1), or by the spear of
Delius, $ 20. 1, 2. ) That he lived before the for- | Seilenus. (Eurip. Cyclops, 7. ) In his flight Athena
us Rhenanus,
betoric, Basil.
l all be found
· F. Pitloeus,
[W. R. }
ous spectre,
beings. It
sent out by
as believed
iss and the
94, Eodes,
ressed the
to fee and
roll. ii. 4. )
sumed the
of aitract-
blood like
led among
25; Suid.
L. S. ]
anion, as
whom he
nerit, on
to what
hodian
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16
ENDOEUS.
ENDYMION.
a
threw upon him the island of Sicily. (Apollod. i. the time of Peisistratus and his sons, about B. c.
6. & 2. ) There are two other fabulous beings of 560. (Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 124, 125. ) His
this name. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5; Eustath. ad llom. works were: 1. In the acropolis at Athens a sit-
p. 918. )
(L. S. ) ting statue of Athena, in olive-wood, with an in-
ENCOʻLPIUS. [PetroNIUS. ]
scription to the effect that Callias dedicated it, and
ENCOʻLPIUS is named by Lampridius as the Endoeus made it. Hence his age is inferred, for
author of a life of the emperor Alexander Severus, the first Callias who is mentioned in history is the
with whom he lived upon terms of intimacy. opponent of Peisistratus. (llerod. vi. 121. ) 2. In
(Lamprid. Aler. Scr. 17, 48. )
the temple of Athena Polias at Erythrae in lonia,
A book published by Thomas Elyot, a man a colossal wooden statue of the goddess, sitting on
celebrated for his learning in the reign of Henry a throne, holding a distaff in each hand, and having
VIII. , under the title “ The Image of Governance a sun-dial (TÓNOS) on the head. 3. In connexion
(Imago Imperii) compiled of the Actes and Sen- with this statue, there stood in the hypaethrum,
tences notable of the most noble emperor Alex- before the visit of Pausanias to the temple, statues
ander Severus, translated from the Greek of Eur of the Graces and Ilours, in white marble, also by
colpius (Encolpius) into English," Lond. 1540, Endocus. 4. A statue of Athena Alea, in her
1541, 1544, 1549, 4to. , 1556, 1594, 8vo. , is a fa- temple at Tegea, made entirely of ivory, which
brication.
[W. R.
] was transported to Rome by Augustus, and set up
ENDE'IS ('Evanís), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum. (Paus. i. 26. & 5;
was married to Aeacus, by whom she became the vii. 5. § 4; viii. 46. § 2; Athenag. Legat. pro
mother of Peleus and Teinmon. (A pollod. iii. 12. Christ. p. 293, a. )
(P. S. ]
$ 6. ) Pausanias (ii. 29. $ 7) calls her a daughter ENDY'MION ('Evd vulwv), a youth distin-
of Sciron.
(L. S. ) guished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient
E'NDIUS (“Ev&los), of Sparta, son of Alcibiades, story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his
member of a family whose connexion with that of life. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to
the Athenian Alcibiades had in a previous generation Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a
introduced into the latter this Lacedaemonian name. combination of the two. According to the first set
It is he apparently who was one of the three am- of legends, he was a son of Aëthlius and Calyce, or
bassadors sent by Sparta in 420 B. c. to dissuade of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Aëthlius in the
Athens from the Argive alliance. They were kingdom of Elis. (Paus. v. 1. ♡ 2. ) Others again
chosen, says Thucydides, from the belief of their say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of
being acceptable to the Athenians, and possibly in Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian set-
particular with a view to conciliate his guest, Alci- tlers from Thessaly. (Apollod. i. 7. § 5, &c. ;
biades, who probably made use of this rery advan- Paus. v. 8. $ 1. ) Conon (Narrat. 14) calls him a
tage in effecting the deception by which he de- son of Zeus and Protogeneia, and Hyginus (Fab.
feated their purpose. He was elected ephor in ene 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to hare been
autumn of 413, the time of the Atheniar disaster married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, Neïs,
at Syracuse, and through him Alcibiades, now in or Iphianassa ; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeius. Eury.
exile, inflicted on his country the severe blow of dice, and Naxus are called his children. He was,
bringing the Lacedaemonians to the coast of Ionia, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom
which otherwise would at any rate have been post- he had fifty daughters. (Paus. v. 1. Ø 2. ) He
poned. His influence decided the government to caused his sons to engage in the race-course at
lend its first succour to Chios; and when the Olympin, and promised to the victor the succession
blockade of their ships in Peiraeeus seemed likely in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers,
to put a stop to all operations, he again persuaded and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was
Endius and his colleagues to make the attempt. believed to be buried at Olympia, which also con-
Thucydides says, that Alcibiades was his atpikos tained a statne of his in the treasury of the Meta-
és td uátota févos; so that probably it was with pontians. (Paus. vi. 19. 8, 20. 6. ) According
him that Alcibiades resided during his stay at to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, En-
Sparta (Thục. v. 44, viii. 6, 12. ) To these dymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in
facts we may venture to add from Diodorus (xiii. Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius;
52, 53) the further statement, that after the defeat Paus. v. 1. 64; 0v. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii.
at Cyzicus, B. C. 410, he was sent from Sparta at 299). He is described by the poets either as a
the head of an embassy to Athens with proposals king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49,
for
peace of the fairest character, which were, how- xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slum-
ever, through the influence of the presumptuous bering in a care of mount Latmus, Selene came
demagogue Cleophon, rejected. Endius, as the down to him, kissed, and lay by his side. (Comp.
friend of Alcibiades, the victor of Cyzicus, would A pollon. Rhod. iv. 57. ) There also he had, in
naturally be selected ; and the account of Diodo- later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn
rus, with the exception of course of the oration he in a cave of mount Latmus. (Paus. v. I. $ 4;
writes for Endins, may, notwithstanding the Strab. xiv. p. 636. ) His eternal sleep on Latmus
silence of Xenophon, be received as true in the is assigned to different causes in ancient story.
[A. H. C. ) Some said that Zeus had granted him a request,
ENDOEUS (“Evôolos), an Athenian statuary, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eter.
is called a disciple of Daedalus, whom he is said to nal sleep, and everlasting south (Apollod. i. 7.
have accompanied when he fled to Crete. This $ 5. ); others relate that he was received among
statement must be taken to express, not the time the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love
at which he lived, but the style of art which he with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by
practised. It is probable that he lived at the same throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus
period as Dipoenus and Scyllis, who are in the ' (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 49. ) Others, lastly, strto
same way called disciples of Daedalus, namely, in ; that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty,
main.
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ENNIUS.
17
EXXIUS.
neiis.
:
sent him to sleep, that she might be able to kiss cnemy to the Muscs, and subsequently, when
him without being observed by him. (Cic. Tuscul. Censor, dedicated a joint temple to Hercules and
i. 38. ) The stories of the fair sleeper, Endymion, the Nine. Through the son of Nobilior, Ennius,
the darling of Selenc, are unquestionably poctical when far advanced in life, obtained the rights of a
fictions, in which sleep is personified. llis name citizen, a privilege which at that epoch was
and all his attributes confirin this opinion : Endy- guarded with watchful jealousy, and very rarely
mion significs a being that gently comes over one ; / granted to an alien. From the period, however,
he is called a king, because he has power over all when he quitted Sardinia, he secins to have made
living creatures ; a shepherd, because he slumbered Rome his chief abode ; for there his great poetical
in the cool caves of mount Latmus, that is, " thic talents, and an amount of learning which must
mount of oblivion. " Nothing can be more bcau- have been considered marvellous in those days,
tiful, lastly, than the notion, that he is kissed by since he was master of three languages,—Oscin,
the soft rays of the moon. (Comp. Plat. l'hacd. p. | Latin, and Greek,-gained for him the respect
72. b; Ov. Am. i. 13. 43. ) There is a beautiful and favour of all who valued such attainments ;
statue of a sleeping Endymion in the British and, in particular, he lived upon terms of the
Muscum.
(L. S. ) closest intimacy with the conqueror of Jlannibal
ENIPEUS ("Eviteus), a river. god in Thessaly, and other members of that distinguished family.
who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmo- | Dwelling in a humble mansion on the Aventinic,
Poseidon, who was in love with her, attended by a single female slave, he maintained
assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus himself in honourable poverty by acting as a pro-
visited her, and she became by him the mother of ceptor to patrician youths ; and having lived on
twins, Pelias and Neleus. (Apollod. i. 9. 8. ) happily to a good agc, was carried off by a disease
Ovid (Met. vi. 116) relates that Poscidon, having of the joints, probably gout, when seventy years
assumed the form of Enipeus, begot by Iphimedeia old, soon after the completion of his great under-
two sons, Otus and Ephialtes. Another river-god taking, which he closes by comparing himself to a
of the same name occurs in Elis, who is likewise race-horse, in these prophetic lines :-
connected with the legend about Tyro. (Strab. viii. Like some brave steed, who in his latest race
p. 356. )
(L. S. ) Hath won the Olympic wreath; the contest o'er,
E'NNIA, called ENNIA TURASYLLA by Dion Sinks to repose, worn out by age and toil.
Cassius, and ENNIA Narvia by Suetonius, was the At the desire of Africanus, his remains were
wife of Macro and the mistress of Caligula. Her deposited in the sepulchre of the Scipios, and his
husband murdered Tiberius in order to accelerate bust allowed a place among the effigies of that
the accession of Caligula ; but this emperor, like a noble house. His epitaph, penned by himself in
true tyrant, disliking to see those to whom he was the undoubting anticipation of immortal fame, has
under obligation, put to death Ennia and her hus- been preserved, and may be literally rendered
band. (Dion. Cass. Iviii. 28, lix. 10 ; Tac. Ann. thus:-
vi. 45 ; Suet. Cal. 12, 26. )
Romans, behold old Ennius! whose lays
ENNIUS, whom the Romans ever regarded Built up on high your mighty fathers' praise !
with a sort of filial reverence as the parent of Pour not the wail of mourning o'er my bier,
their literature-noster Ennirs, our own Ennius, as Nor pay to me the tribute of a tear :
he is styled with fond familiarity-was born in the Still, still I live! from mouth to mouth I fly!
consulship of C. Mamilius Turrinus and C. Vale Never forgotten, never shall I die!
rius Falto, B. C. 239, the year immediately follow- The works of Ennius are believed to hare exist-
ing that in which the first regular drama had been ed entire so late as the thirteenth century (A. G.
exhibited on the Roman stage by Livius Androni- Cramer, Hauschronick, p. 223), but they have
cus. The place of his nativity was Rudiae, a long since disappeared as an independent whole,
Calabrian village among the hills near Brundu- and nothing now remains but fragments collected
sium. He claimed descent from the ancient lords from other ancient writers. These amount in all
of Messapia ; and after he had become a convert to many hundred lines; but a large proportion
to the Pythagorean doctrines, was wont to boast being quotations cited by grammarians for the
that the spirit which had once animated the body purpose of illustrating some rare form, or deter-
of the immortal Homer, after passing through mining the signification of some obsolete word, are
many tenements, after residing among others in a mere scraps, possessing little interest for any one
peacock, and in the sage of Crotona, had eren- but a philologist. Some extracts of a longer and
tually passed into his own frame. Of his early more satisfactory character are to be found in
history we know nothing, except, if we can trust Cicero, who gives us from the annals,—the dream
the loose poetical testimony of Silius and Clau- of Ilia (18 lines); the conflicting auspices observed
dian, that he served with credit as a soldier, and by Romulus and Remus (20 lines); and the speech
rose to the rank of a centurion. When M. Por- of Pyrrhus with regard to ransoming the prisoners
cius Cato, who had filled the office of quaestor (8 lines): besides these, a passage from the An-
under Scipio in the African war, was returning dronache (18 lines); a curious invective against
home, he found Ennius in Sardinia, became ic- itinerant fortune-tellers, probably from the Satires ;
quainted with his high powers, and brought him and a few others of less importance. Aulus Gel.
in his train to Rome, our poet being at that time lius has saved eighteen consecutive verses, in
about the age of thirty-eight. But his military which the duties and bearing of a humble friend
ardour was not yet quenched; for twelve years towards his superior are bodied forth in very spi-
afterwards he accompanied M. Fulvius Nobilior rited phraseology, forming a picture which it wils
a
during the Aetolian campaign, and shared his believed that the poet intended for a portrait of
triumph. It is recorded that the victorious gene himself, while Macrobius presents us with a battle-
ral, at the instigation probably of his literary piece (8 lines), where a tribune is described as gal-
friend, consecrated the spoils captured from the lantly resisting the attack of a crowd of foes,
a
VOL. II.
с
## p.
163, c, de Sollert, animal. p. 984. d. ) (L. S. ] An eminent jurist of the time of Justinian is
ENANTIOʻPHANES. Cujacius, in his Pre- frequently cited in the Basilica, and in the Scholia
face to the 60th book of the Basilica, prefixed to on that work by the appellation of the Anonymous.
the 7th volume of Fabrot's edition of that work, This writer composed an Index or abridgment of
supposes Enantiophanes to be the assumed name the Novells of Justinian, and was the author of
of a Graeco-Roman jurist, who wrote nepl évautio- Paratitla (a comparison of parallel passages) in the
Qaywv, or concerning the explanation of apparent Digest. To this work the treatise on apparently
legal inconsistencies; and Suarez (Notit. Basil. discordant passages would form a natural sequel;
$ 35) says that Photius, in his Nomocanon, men- and Mortreuil (Histoire du Droit Byzantin, i. p.
tions having written such a work. Fabricius, in a 296) makes it probable that Enantiophanes and
note upon the work of Suarez (which is inserted the Anonymous were the same persons; for in
in the Bibliotheca Graeca), states that Balsamo, in Basil. vi. p. 251 Schol. , a passage is ascribed to
his Preface to the Nomocanon of Photius, refers to Enantiophanes, which, in Basil. vi. p. 260, Schol. ,
Enantiophanes. Assemanni, however, shews (Bill. is attributed to the Anonymous.
Jur. Orient. ii. 18, p. 389) that there is no reason Biener (Geschichte der Novellen Justinians, p.
for attributing a work nepi vartiopavwv to Pho- 56) threw out the conjecture, that the Anonymous
tius, that there is no passage in his Nomocanon was no other than Julianus, the author of the Latin
relating to such a work, and that the sentence Epitome of the Novells; and Zachariae (Anecdota,
in which Balsamo is supposed by Fabricius to refer p. 204–7) attempts to establish this conjecture.
to Enantiophanes has no such meaning. The Mortreuil seems disposed to identify the three.
Έναντιοφανών βιβλίον is cited in Basil. v. p. 726. In order to facilitate investigation, we subjoin a
Enantiophanes (Basil. vi. p. 250) cites his own list (formed from Reiz and Fabricius) of passages
book de Legatis et Mortis Causa Donationibus, and in the Basilica where the name of Enantiophanes
the Napaypaon, or annotation, of Enantiophanes is occurs.
cited in Basil. vii. p. 496. The period when the ju- Basil
. i. pp. 70, 99, 100, 109, 260, 408, 262,
rist lived who bears this name, has been a subject | 265, 266, ii. pp. 540, 500, 609, 610, 628, iii.
of much dispute. Reiz (ad Theophilum, pp. 1234, pp. 43, 170, 258, 318, 393, 394, 412, v. p. 726,
1236) thinks that Enantiophanes wrote before the vi. 250, 251, 260, vii. 496, 499, 565, 640, 641.
composition of the Basilica, and marks his name (Heimbach, de Basil. Orig. pp. 76-79. ) [J. T. G. )
with an asterisk as an ascertained contemporary of ENAREʻPHORUS ('Evapń popos), a son of
Justinian. In Basil. iii. p. 318 Enantiophanes Hippocoön, was a most passionate suitor of Helen,
calls Stephanus his master ; but this is by no when she was yet quite young. Tyndareus, there
means conclusive. Assemanni, misled by Papado fore, entrusted the maiden to the care of Theseus.
poli, thinks that the Stephanus here meant lived (Apollod. iii. 10. § 5; Plut. Thes. 31. ) Enare
under Alexius Comnenus, and was not the Stepha- phorus had a heroum at Sparta. (Paus. iii. 15.
nus who was one of the compilers of Justinian's $ 2. )
(L. S. )
Digest. The contemporary of Justinian, however, EVA'RETE. (AEOLUS, No. 1. ]
was undoubtedly the person intended; but Stepha- ENCE'LADUS ('Eykénados), a son of Tarta-
nus was one of those early Graeco-Roman jurists rus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants
who, like Domninus, Patricius, and Cyrillus, are who made war upon the gods. (Hygin. Fub. Praef.
thought by Zachariae (Anecdota, p. viii. ) to have p. 1 ; Virg. Aen, iv. 179 ; 0v. Ep. ex Pont. ii. 2.
been called by subsequent jurists masters or teachers 12, Amor. iii. 12. 27. ) He was killed, according
in a general sense. (Compare Busil. 11. tit. i. s. 67, to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and bu-
sch. ed. Heimbach, i. p. 616. ) Zachariae places ried under mount Aetna (Virg. Aen. iii. 578); and,
Enantiophanes among the jurists who lived before according to others, he was killed by the chariot of
the time of Basileius Macedo. (Ilist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Athena (Paus. viii. 47. § 1), or by the spear of
Delius, $ 20. 1, 2. ) That he lived before the for- | Seilenus. (Eurip. Cyclops, 7. ) In his flight Athena
us Rhenanus,
betoric, Basil.
l all be found
· F. Pitloeus,
[W. R. }
ous spectre,
beings. It
sent out by
as believed
iss and the
94, Eodes,
ressed the
to fee and
roll. ii. 4. )
sumed the
of aitract-
blood like
led among
25; Suid.
L. S. ]
anion, as
whom he
nerit, on
to what
hodian
## p. 16 (#32) ##############################################
16
ENDOEUS.
ENDYMION.
a
threw upon him the island of Sicily. (Apollod. i. the time of Peisistratus and his sons, about B. c.
6. & 2. ) There are two other fabulous beings of 560. (Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 124, 125. ) His
this name. (Apollod. ii. 1. $ 5; Eustath. ad llom. works were: 1. In the acropolis at Athens a sit-
p. 918. )
(L. S. ) ting statue of Athena, in olive-wood, with an in-
ENCOʻLPIUS. [PetroNIUS. ]
scription to the effect that Callias dedicated it, and
ENCOʻLPIUS is named by Lampridius as the Endoeus made it. Hence his age is inferred, for
author of a life of the emperor Alexander Severus, the first Callias who is mentioned in history is the
with whom he lived upon terms of intimacy. opponent of Peisistratus. (llerod. vi. 121. ) 2. In
(Lamprid. Aler. Scr. 17, 48. )
the temple of Athena Polias at Erythrae in lonia,
A book published by Thomas Elyot, a man a colossal wooden statue of the goddess, sitting on
celebrated for his learning in the reign of Henry a throne, holding a distaff in each hand, and having
VIII. , under the title “ The Image of Governance a sun-dial (TÓNOS) on the head. 3. In connexion
(Imago Imperii) compiled of the Actes and Sen- with this statue, there stood in the hypaethrum,
tences notable of the most noble emperor Alex- before the visit of Pausanias to the temple, statues
ander Severus, translated from the Greek of Eur of the Graces and Ilours, in white marble, also by
colpius (Encolpius) into English," Lond. 1540, Endocus. 4. A statue of Athena Alea, in her
1541, 1544, 1549, 4to. , 1556, 1594, 8vo. , is a fa- temple at Tegea, made entirely of ivory, which
brication.
[W. R.
] was transported to Rome by Augustus, and set up
ENDE'IS ('Evanís), a daughter of Chiron, who in the entrance of his forum. (Paus. i. 26. & 5;
was married to Aeacus, by whom she became the vii. 5. § 4; viii. 46. § 2; Athenag. Legat. pro
mother of Peleus and Teinmon. (A pollod. iii. 12. Christ. p. 293, a. )
(P. S. ]
$ 6. ) Pausanias (ii. 29. $ 7) calls her a daughter ENDY'MION ('Evd vulwv), a youth distin-
of Sciron.
(L. S. ) guished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient
E'NDIUS (“Ev&los), of Sparta, son of Alcibiades, story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his
member of a family whose connexion with that of life. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to
the Athenian Alcibiades had in a previous generation Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a
introduced into the latter this Lacedaemonian name. combination of the two. According to the first set
It is he apparently who was one of the three am- of legends, he was a son of Aëthlius and Calyce, or
bassadors sent by Sparta in 420 B. c. to dissuade of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Aëthlius in the
Athens from the Argive alliance. They were kingdom of Elis. (Paus. v. 1. ♡ 2. ) Others again
chosen, says Thucydides, from the belief of their say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of
being acceptable to the Athenians, and possibly in Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian set-
particular with a view to conciliate his guest, Alci- tlers from Thessaly. (Apollod. i. 7. § 5, &c. ;
biades, who probably made use of this rery advan- Paus. v. 8. $ 1. ) Conon (Narrat. 14) calls him a
tage in effecting the deception by which he de- son of Zeus and Protogeneia, and Hyginus (Fab.
feated their purpose. He was elected ephor in ene 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to hare been
autumn of 413, the time of the Atheniar disaster married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, Neïs,
at Syracuse, and through him Alcibiades, now in or Iphianassa ; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeius. Eury.
exile, inflicted on his country the severe blow of dice, and Naxus are called his children. He was,
bringing the Lacedaemonians to the coast of Ionia, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom
which otherwise would at any rate have been post- he had fifty daughters. (Paus. v. 1. Ø 2. ) He
poned. His influence decided the government to caused his sons to engage in the race-course at
lend its first succour to Chios; and when the Olympin, and promised to the victor the succession
blockade of their ships in Peiraeeus seemed likely in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers,
to put a stop to all operations, he again persuaded and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was
Endius and his colleagues to make the attempt. believed to be buried at Olympia, which also con-
Thucydides says, that Alcibiades was his atpikos tained a statne of his in the treasury of the Meta-
és td uátota févos; so that probably it was with pontians. (Paus. vi. 19. 8, 20. 6. ) According
him that Alcibiades resided during his stay at to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, En-
Sparta (Thục. v. 44, viii. 6, 12. ) To these dymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in
facts we may venture to add from Diodorus (xiii. Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius;
52, 53) the further statement, that after the defeat Paus. v. 1. 64; 0v. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii.
at Cyzicus, B. C. 410, he was sent from Sparta at 299). He is described by the poets either as a
the head of an embassy to Athens with proposals king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49,
for
peace of the fairest character, which were, how- xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slum-
ever, through the influence of the presumptuous bering in a care of mount Latmus, Selene came
demagogue Cleophon, rejected. Endius, as the down to him, kissed, and lay by his side. (Comp.
friend of Alcibiades, the victor of Cyzicus, would A pollon. Rhod. iv. 57. ) There also he had, in
naturally be selected ; and the account of Diodo- later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn
rus, with the exception of course of the oration he in a cave of mount Latmus. (Paus. v. I. $ 4;
writes for Endins, may, notwithstanding the Strab. xiv. p. 636. ) His eternal sleep on Latmus
silence of Xenophon, be received as true in the is assigned to different causes in ancient story.
[A. H. C. ) Some said that Zeus had granted him a request,
ENDOEUS (“Evôolos), an Athenian statuary, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eter.
is called a disciple of Daedalus, whom he is said to nal sleep, and everlasting south (Apollod. i. 7.
have accompanied when he fled to Crete. This $ 5. ); others relate that he was received among
statement must be taken to express, not the time the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love
at which he lived, but the style of art which he with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by
practised. It is probable that he lived at the same throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus
period as Dipoenus and Scyllis, who are in the ' (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 49. ) Others, lastly, strto
same way called disciples of Daedalus, namely, in ; that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty,
main.
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sent him to sleep, that she might be able to kiss cnemy to the Muscs, and subsequently, when
him without being observed by him. (Cic. Tuscul. Censor, dedicated a joint temple to Hercules and
i. 38. ) The stories of the fair sleeper, Endymion, the Nine. Through the son of Nobilior, Ennius,
the darling of Selenc, are unquestionably poctical when far advanced in life, obtained the rights of a
fictions, in which sleep is personified. llis name citizen, a privilege which at that epoch was
and all his attributes confirin this opinion : Endy- guarded with watchful jealousy, and very rarely
mion significs a being that gently comes over one ; / granted to an alien. From the period, however,
he is called a king, because he has power over all when he quitted Sardinia, he secins to have made
living creatures ; a shepherd, because he slumbered Rome his chief abode ; for there his great poetical
in the cool caves of mount Latmus, that is, " thic talents, and an amount of learning which must
mount of oblivion. " Nothing can be more bcau- have been considered marvellous in those days,
tiful, lastly, than the notion, that he is kissed by since he was master of three languages,—Oscin,
the soft rays of the moon. (Comp. Plat. l'hacd. p. | Latin, and Greek,-gained for him the respect
72. b; Ov. Am. i. 13. 43. ) There is a beautiful and favour of all who valued such attainments ;
statue of a sleeping Endymion in the British and, in particular, he lived upon terms of the
Muscum.
(L. S. ) closest intimacy with the conqueror of Jlannibal
ENIPEUS ("Eviteus), a river. god in Thessaly, and other members of that distinguished family.
who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmo- | Dwelling in a humble mansion on the Aventinic,
Poseidon, who was in love with her, attended by a single female slave, he maintained
assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus himself in honourable poverty by acting as a pro-
visited her, and she became by him the mother of ceptor to patrician youths ; and having lived on
twins, Pelias and Neleus. (Apollod. i. 9. 8. ) happily to a good agc, was carried off by a disease
Ovid (Met. vi. 116) relates that Poscidon, having of the joints, probably gout, when seventy years
assumed the form of Enipeus, begot by Iphimedeia old, soon after the completion of his great under-
two sons, Otus and Ephialtes. Another river-god taking, which he closes by comparing himself to a
of the same name occurs in Elis, who is likewise race-horse, in these prophetic lines :-
connected with the legend about Tyro. (Strab. viii. Like some brave steed, who in his latest race
p. 356. )
(L. S. ) Hath won the Olympic wreath; the contest o'er,
E'NNIA, called ENNIA TURASYLLA by Dion Sinks to repose, worn out by age and toil.
Cassius, and ENNIA Narvia by Suetonius, was the At the desire of Africanus, his remains were
wife of Macro and the mistress of Caligula. Her deposited in the sepulchre of the Scipios, and his
husband murdered Tiberius in order to accelerate bust allowed a place among the effigies of that
the accession of Caligula ; but this emperor, like a noble house. His epitaph, penned by himself in
true tyrant, disliking to see those to whom he was the undoubting anticipation of immortal fame, has
under obligation, put to death Ennia and her hus- been preserved, and may be literally rendered
band. (Dion. Cass. Iviii. 28, lix. 10 ; Tac. Ann. thus:-
vi. 45 ; Suet. Cal. 12, 26. )
Romans, behold old Ennius! whose lays
ENNIUS, whom the Romans ever regarded Built up on high your mighty fathers' praise !
with a sort of filial reverence as the parent of Pour not the wail of mourning o'er my bier,
their literature-noster Ennirs, our own Ennius, as Nor pay to me the tribute of a tear :
he is styled with fond familiarity-was born in the Still, still I live! from mouth to mouth I fly!
consulship of C. Mamilius Turrinus and C. Vale Never forgotten, never shall I die!
rius Falto, B. C. 239, the year immediately follow- The works of Ennius are believed to hare exist-
ing that in which the first regular drama had been ed entire so late as the thirteenth century (A. G.
exhibited on the Roman stage by Livius Androni- Cramer, Hauschronick, p. 223), but they have
cus. The place of his nativity was Rudiae, a long since disappeared as an independent whole,
Calabrian village among the hills near Brundu- and nothing now remains but fragments collected
sium. He claimed descent from the ancient lords from other ancient writers. These amount in all
of Messapia ; and after he had become a convert to many hundred lines; but a large proportion
to the Pythagorean doctrines, was wont to boast being quotations cited by grammarians for the
that the spirit which had once animated the body purpose of illustrating some rare form, or deter-
of the immortal Homer, after passing through mining the signification of some obsolete word, are
many tenements, after residing among others in a mere scraps, possessing little interest for any one
peacock, and in the sage of Crotona, had eren- but a philologist. Some extracts of a longer and
tually passed into his own frame. Of his early more satisfactory character are to be found in
history we know nothing, except, if we can trust Cicero, who gives us from the annals,—the dream
the loose poetical testimony of Silius and Clau- of Ilia (18 lines); the conflicting auspices observed
dian, that he served with credit as a soldier, and by Romulus and Remus (20 lines); and the speech
rose to the rank of a centurion. When M. Por- of Pyrrhus with regard to ransoming the prisoners
cius Cato, who had filled the office of quaestor (8 lines): besides these, a passage from the An-
under Scipio in the African war, was returning dronache (18 lines); a curious invective against
home, he found Ennius in Sardinia, became ic- itinerant fortune-tellers, probably from the Satires ;
quainted with his high powers, and brought him and a few others of less importance. Aulus Gel.
in his train to Rome, our poet being at that time lius has saved eighteen consecutive verses, in
about the age of thirty-eight. But his military which the duties and bearing of a humble friend
ardour was not yet quenched; for twelve years towards his superior are bodied forth in very spi-
afterwards he accompanied M. Fulvius Nobilior rited phraseology, forming a picture which it wils
a
during the Aetolian campaign, and shared his believed that the poet intended for a portrait of
triumph. It is recorded that the victorious gene himself, while Macrobius presents us with a battle-
ral, at the instigation probably of his literary piece (8 lines), where a tribune is described as gal-
friend, consecrated the spoils captured from the lantly resisting the attack of a crowd of foes,
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